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[Vue de France] Le consternant rapport sur « la circulation des collections publiques » Lorenzo Lotto (1480-1556)Le Christ portant sa croix Huile sur toile - 66 x 60 cm Paris, Musée du Louvre, peut-être bientôt déposé pour un an dans les locaux de La Tribune de l’Art ?

[Vue de France] Le consternant rapport sur « la circulation des collections publiques »

Photo : RMN-GP/T. Le Mage Une mauvaise question apporte souvent une réponse du même tonneau. Il n’est donc pas étonnant que le rapport sur la « circulation des collections publiques », remis par Alain Seban à la ministre de la Culture qui le lui avait demandé, soit consternant. La ministre, de toute façon, expliquait déjà ce qu’elle voulait dans la lettre de mission et le président du Centre Pompidou, qu’il n’y avait pas besoin de convaincre, s’est contenté de décliner ses « solutions » sur exactement 26 pages1. Alain Seban, qui a beaucoup consulté, nous avait même demandé notre avis en nous recevant à ce sujet. Tout le monde au musée !

Tout le rapport part d’un seul postulat : il faut amener au musée les Français ne les fréquentant jamais, soit environ un tiers de la population. Tout sauf les musées. [View from UK] Schools to host masterpieces for the day. Four paintings by Gainsborough, Turner, Monet and Lowry left their galleries to go on display in schools yesterday as part of a UK-wide project to raise awareness and access to UK collections.

[View from UK] Schools to host masterpieces for the day

Your Paintings: Masterpieces in Schools aims to take 26 oil paintings into 27 primary and secondary schools across the UK over the next two weeks. Each school will have the opportunity to use the painting as inspiration for creative learning across as many subject areas of the curriculum as possible. The project has been developed by the Public Catalogue Foundation (PCF) and BBC Learning, and is supported by contemporary artists Bob and Roberta Smith and John Byrne. Andrew Ellis, director of the PCF, said: “Masterpieces in Schools takes great art into the classroom to encourage interest at an early age. We hope all the children will be left with the lasting memory of the day a Monet, Turner or Gainsborough came to their school.” [View from UK] Arts can raise education standards. The Arts Council of Wales (ACW) has published an independent review showing how the arts can be used to drive up overall standards of education in schools.

[View from UK] Arts can raise education standards

Published this week, the Arts in Education in the Schools of Wales report is the first in-depth survey of the relationship between the arts and education sectors in the nation. The report found that arts organisations are finding it increasingly difficult to persuade schools to take their work because of costs, lack of time and the fact that many schools saw arts as “a low priority, non-essential, or a luxury”. The report states: “The current, and very necessary, emphasis on literacy and numeracy is narrowing the focus of schools and limiting the opportunities for young people to engage in creative practice that can – ironically - lead to improved standards in these areas.” The document reviewed current arts provision in schools across Wales and found that services varied widely from area to area.

[Vue de France] "L'Etat doit contribuer à a structuration des politiques d'éducation artisitique & culturelle" Interview Publié le 13/09/2013 • Mis à jour le 17/09/2013 • Par Hélène Girard • dans : A la une, France aurelie_Filippetti_une - © G.

[Vue de France] "L'Etat doit contribuer à a structuration des politiques d'éducation artisitique & culturelle"

Bouys / AFP La ministre de la culture et de la communication, Aurélie Filippetti, annoncera le 16 septembre un « grand projet pour l’éducation artistique et culturelle ». Dans un entretien avec la Gazette, elle en dévoile les principaux axes. [View from UK] Tour de France. A great museum experiment comes to a sad end this week.

[View from UK] Tour de France

The Centre Pompidou Mobile has been taking top-notch works of art to smaller towns round France using a clever set-up that’s a modern version of a circus big top. You can see a picture of it here. Well-insulated, colourful tents house works by artists such as Kandinsky, Duchamp and Leger. For protection, paintings are displayed in a neatly designed, purpose-built showcase with large windows. Sculptures are free-standing. But on Sunday, the Pompidou Centre’s nomadic museum reaches the end of its visit to Aubagne, a small town in the south of France, and all future stops on its Tour de France have been scrapped.

Instead of moving on to Nantes, as planned, a different version of the mobile museum will open in -wait for it - Saudi Arabia. The reason, as you might’ve guessed, is money. In true French (and national museum) style, the movable museum seems fantastically expensive.